A Russian-controlled digital forensics company that sold investigative software to sensitive US government agencies allegedly used Turkey in multiple ways to obscure its Russian connections, including a Turkish passport that allowed a Russian shareholder to return to the management of its American affiliate under a new identity and a server in Turkey used to mask internet access originating from Russia, according to a newly filed US criminal complaint.
The 43-page affidavit, filed as part of a federal prosecution of Oxygen Forensics executives Lee Reiber and Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov, describes an elaborate corporate and technical architecture that prosecutors say was designed to conceal the fact that Oxygen Forensics Inc., marketed as an American digital forensics company, remained owned and controlled by Russian nationals after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered sweeping US sanctions and heightened scrutiny of Russian technology.
The Turkey connection is particularly striking. According to the complaint, one of Oxygen’s principal Russian shareholders, identified by prosecutors only as “Co-Conspirator-1,” obtained a Turkish passport in 2023. The following year he returned to the management and board of the US company under a different name and identity even though he had previously been removed from its public filings as the company sought to distance itself from its Russian ownership.
Nordic Monitor has identified the Russian shareholder described by US investigators as “Co-Conspirator-1” as Oleg Fedorov, the longtime co-founder and former CEO of Oxygen Forensics, based on the biographical details in the federal affidavit and contemporaneous company records. According to US investigators, Fedorov later re-entered the company’s management under the name Fatih Osman using a Turkish passport obtained in 2023.
Published originally on September 28, 2026.
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